Foglifter's Emerging Writer Fellows Reginald Edmonds and Ali Michael Cannon Present: Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading Please join Foglifter in celebrating the culmination of...
Our monthly Open Mic Poetry event, Asé, is happening this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom! We are featuring poets Kathy Dana...
The Funny Sexy Sad council-- Lizzy, Amira, Nate and Melissa-- host these incredible readers, all sharing something that's either hilarious, miserable, or some kind of...
Join us for a virtual--but real!--event to celebrate the publication of Jazmina Barrera's On Lighthouses (Two Lines Press). Jazmina will be joined by Philip Hoare for a conversation...
with James Tracy, Hilary Moore, Bill Crossman, and Nancy Kurshan celebrating the release of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's...
Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. You can order a copy...
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. This will be a virtual event, live-streamed on our Facebook...
Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which we will be streaming...
As society grinds to a halt around us, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the...
Stories of triumph and perseverance, hope, support, and love from times of plague and pandemic ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT Tuesday, May 26, 6pm PT/9pm/ET We’re...
Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from We Cast A Shadow published by One World --------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...
In conversation with Diana Divecha Program will air Tuesday May 26th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In a world where...
Phuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. Praise for Sigh, Gone “The...
Joanna Hershon and Phyllis Grant discuss their new books, St. Ivo and Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. Praise for St. Ivo “From the very first...
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest...
Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. We are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed,...
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: I've Got a Song for That with Scott Ferreter, The...
This event is online. Join us for an event with Alka Joshi, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging... but the...
“A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.” — Joan Didion Susan Choi is the award-winning author of five...
discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...
Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...
During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...
Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto...
Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...
Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen. About Enemy Queen A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass...
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...
Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...